Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.
Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, ear… - Lew Wallace
Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, ear…
- Lew Wallace
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. - Lew Wallace
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.
All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico. - Lew Wallace
All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.
The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. - Lew Wallace
The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. - Lew Wallace
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God. - Lew Wallace
Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. - Lew Wallace
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all s… - Lew Wallace
Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all s…
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune. - Lew Wallace
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.
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